GTI Track Car - Now big turbo, sidewinder.

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A few action days and track days at the local Castle Combe Circuit again…









Decided to make a chassis mounted splitter:



These mounts are great!




Lick of paint and an airdam:



Extended the end pieces of airdam


Loaded up for another track day




Few of the golf boys:




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Got invited to Ramair stand at a castle Combe Action Day in which they offered me lots of free track time






My little brothers hydro’d polo GTI got painted too. Matching plates:



Golf loaded up once more for a track day



This time a very wet Anglesey




Another track day at castle combe end of October 2022 - this would be the last time the golf would be out. However, some bloody cool pictures!









Many fun sessions with Eddie and Jack before it all went wrong.




By the afternoon of said track day the golf was acting very odd… it wouldn’t boost properly at all was really really odd. Loaded it back up and took it to the workshop.



HPFP failure. I inspect the follower after every day so I was amazed to see this sight





Chunks of cam follower and HPFP internals in the sump - game over.




I decided not to do anything with the car for a while and even thought about selling up.


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I had lots of interest in parts from the golf, however, the only thing I didn’t get huge amounts of interest in was the shell so I decided to keep it and build an engine for it.

When building the golf I decided to stick a sunstrip on “Dinger Developments” I had a lot of people asking me to do the odd job on their cars which in the end progressed into full builds etc. I then made the big jump to quit my full time job and go out on my own and push Dinger Developments. Within months I’d outgrown the old workshop and moved into a workshop over double the size. This meant the golf took a back seat. In fact, I hadn’t touched it for over a year other than moving it to the new workshop and pushing it around while I set up.




Old workshop:




Gold in the new home collecting a lot of dust.



As mentioned - I decided to build an engine for the golf. I also had another crazy idea… big turbo.

This involved many new parts. So I’d decided to change the build, brakes, exhaust, ko4 swap, battery, intercooler l, intake and more was sold.

Sidewinder manifold bought:



Big welly cooler bought and mounted:



Oil cooler relocated




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Engine was chucked back in as a dummy engine to mount the manifold and turbo (pulsar G25-660) and dummy wastegate.




Custom wing




Annoyed a few people drilling into my genuine xenon’s …



Decided to relocate firebox inside the car to give the turbo set up more space.



Much better!



Always love the rear end of this car, it’s always looked mega IMO. However, the front never really looked aggressive enough I think.

So, I went to ABS Motorsport for more fibreglass goodies, vented bonnet, bootlid and an BTCC EVO 1 bumper to match the second hand wings I picked up for a bargain.



Oil cooler is a perfect fit! Just some type of mesh over the front and that’ll do nicely.




That’s where I’ve got to as of last week.

There’s still an easy £5/6k that needs outing imo this car to finish it. Which really does make me think about selling up again and buying an E92 M3 as a track car as they’re becoming a little more sensible money. But who knows

Sorry for the massive update!

Thanks if you’ve been through all of that and got this far I appreciate it.


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[RBS]

Waaw!👍🏻 Amazing!
Now that’s a proper track car that you’ve build!👍🏻
Forget the M3, Keep that as original as possible😎👍🏻
No rush with your track car, when funds come, you car finish it😉

[shannon-ob]

Waaw!👍🏻 Amazing!
Now that’s a proper track car that you’ve build!👍🏻
Forget the M3, Keep that as original as possible😎👍🏻
No rush with your track car, when funds come, you car finish it😉

Thanks dude!
Yeah, think I will continue with the Golf. 😎

[mjmallia]

Nice and well done with the venture.